Previous small trials have been unable to establish a clinical advantage between coronary angiography via the femoral artery in the groin or the radial artery in the wrist, and there remains ...

New data from an international survey indicate significant variation in techniques and practices of transfemoral access for coronary angiography and PCI. Of the 987 operators from 88 countries who ...

Performing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) and coronary angiography via the radial approach does not impart any excess radiation to patients beyond what occurs during femoral access. The ...

Vascular. 2006;14(5):270-281. In an operating room fluoroscopy suite, the patient is placed on the operating table and the abdomen and groins are shaved. The patient may undergo any form of anesthesia ...

Transradial access (TRA) results in a lower diagnostic success rate and longer procedural times compared with transfemoral access (TFA) in patients undergoing cerebral angiography, the randomized ...

SELECTIVE coronary angiography has become an invaluable means of distinguishing syndromes due to coronary-artery disease from those arising from other causes. Though much speculation has been made ...

Hackensack University Medical Center, a part of Hackensack Meridian Health, became one of the first hospitals in the country to perform a new test for patients at risk of a heart attack or ...